The original Wicker Man (one of the best movie endings if you have not seen)
The Taking of Pelham 123 is a classic crime movie, often shown on tv.
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The original Wicker Man (one of the best movie endings if you have not seen)
The Taking of Pelham 123 is a classic crime movie, often shown on tv.
much the same , he goes to america , very enjoyable and loads of action/assasination set-piecesQuote:
Originally Posted by Neish
The Searchers.
Saw it again recently and still enjoyed. Saw it along long time ago and didn't really get the racist bigotry at the time.
I'd well recommend Pierrepoint to anyone who's not seen it.
it's about Britains (and ours actually) last hangman.
Black Hawk Down - a quiet classic.
2 very funny films possibly mentioned here before are Best In Show and A Mighty Wind. Both are mocumentary style and have the same cast and directorship.
For anyone who saw them: "Wha happened?"
Seconded.Quote:
Originally Posted by finlma
A simple egyptian style graphic in Best of Show made me fall off my chair laughing. One of my all time favourites
Being John Malkovich, Adaptation (bit complicated so never to concentrate) & Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind all written by Charlie Kaufmann.
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That's a really good "little" movie alright. Starring the ever dependable Walter Matthau. He's also in a really good film with Jack Lemmon, where he plays a hitman, and Lemmon is a suicidal man in the apartment next door to where Matthau is waiting to carry out a hit. The name escapes me though. A real classic British film from the early sixties is "Whistle Down the Wind" with Hayley Mills, where a group of kids become convinced that an escaped convict hiding in their barn is Jesus. Really good.Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
Buddy BuddyQuote:
Originally Posted by TonyD
Its very good , but highly depressing really , the final "Hello Tish , Hello Tosh" scene will always stay with meQuote:
Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie
Yep, that's the one. Cheers.Quote:
Originally Posted by sligoman
Another class quote:Quote:
Originally Posted by finlma
"The abuse was mostly musical in nature" :D
Genuinely one of the funniest movies you'll ever see is Batman: The Movie, as in the 60s TV show spin off movie. So knowingly camp its great, plus once you're done laughing at the movie turn on the commentary by Burt Ward and Adam West and laugh even louder! :) This is just one of many quality scenes in it, but gives a real taste as to what the movies about :D:D
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Originally Posted by BohsPartisan
hard to believe the same guy(Joe Carnahan) wrote and directed "Narc", though I gotta say Alicia Keyes looked pretty hot in Smokin Aces, even if I didn't think much of her before.
Another old favourite of mine - Point Blank.
Point break was also good I thought.
This one? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062138/Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
I thought you might mean Grosse Pointe Blank for a moment, which is fun, though I wouldn't expect it to come up here.
I liked Wonderland with Val Kilmer and Dylan Mcdermott, Kilmer plays John Holmes as his life really starts to hit rock bottom.(not a gay porn reference)
Highly recommend Grosse Pointe Blank. Pogues track included.Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
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Originally Posted by Paddy Garcia
Agree. Great fun. And a good soundtrack. Whats the name of the song at the beginning ? (it's also used at the end I think)
'The Producers' is a good film too. I should have had it on my list. The original of course, because I'm not a fan of Matthew Broderick.
Tony
Soundtrack :
Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes
Rudie Can't Fail - Clash
Mirror In The Bathroom - English Beat
Under Pressure - David Bowie, Queen
I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
Live & Let Die - Guns N' Roses
We Care A Lot - Faith No More
Pressure Drop - Specials Lis
Absolute Beginners - Jam
Armagideon Time - Clash
El Matador - Los Fabulosos Cadillacs List
Let My Love Open The Door (E. Cola Mix) - Pete Townshend
Blister 2000 Violent Femmes
Message to You Rudy - The Specials
Cities in Dust - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Killing Moon - Echo & the Bunnymen
Monkey Gone to Heaven - Pixies
Lorca's Novena - The Pogues
Go! - Tones on Tail
Let It Whip - Dazz Band
Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight - Dominatrix
War Cry - Joe Strummer
White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel
Take on Me - a-ha
You're Wondering Now - The Specials
It was "remade" as Payback with Mel Gibson :(Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
One of my top 10. Also love Broderick for Ferris Bueller (and to a lesser extent Election, which is a great little film)Quote:
Originally Posted by Soper
Oh yeah, I do like Election, very good film. Broderick wouldn't be very high in my disliked actor list, so I can watch some of his films.
I l second Goodbye Lenin about a family in Berlin who pretend to their mother that the Berlin wall has not fallen after she wakes from a coma. The Basketball Diaries also a very good film. Alot of the best films i have seen were on late at night and were subtitled. I know its a long shot but did anyone see a film that was on rte late one night about 6 or 7 years ago set somewhere in former yugoslavia about two fellas who were friends before the war but then ended up fighting each other? I havent a clue what it was called, class film though.
Absolutely love Kevin and Perry Go Large as well but it is probably a bit mainstream for this thread.
Yeah, that's happened to me too, come home from the pub and flick on the TV, it's how I saw Chasing Amy, Office Space and Dazed & Confused. All recommended.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ceirtlis
Almost as good as RansomQuote:
Originally Posted by pete
which happens to have a line thats almost as good as "Get off my plane!"
I use that line to describe numerous bad revenge filmsQuote:
Originally Posted by Risteard
"Give me back my <insert whatever is missing here>!!!"
I don't know if I've mentioned it before but Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence is a superb film, about British prisoners in a Japanese POW camp.
Somebody mentioned The Warriors, I agree it's class. From around the same period I'd recommend the original Assault on Precinct 13 and Escape from New York.
Was looking through my DVD collection the other day and 'Dazed and Confused', 'Wonderland' and the original 'Wicker Man were ones I had picked out to mention. Then I get back here and find I've been beaten to it. :)
Was what that line Homer said to Gibson in the Simpsons? "Would Braveheart ever quit? Did Payback quit"?Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
would recommend The Devils' rejects, written and directed by Rob Zombie, but you gotta watch House of a thousand corpse's first to get it.
I think Razing Arizona was mentioned already & like the Big Lebowski is always watchable.
The Blues Brothers is great but alcohol helps.
Thought that was fairly crap :D But then again I amn't a fan of the genre too muchQuote:
Originally Posted by SaucyJack
Another film I would highly reccomend it Amadeus , tells the life story of Mozart , cant rate it highly enough even if you have no knowledge or interest in classical music.
In no particular order some recommendations
Downfall - had to go to Dundalk to see at as Newry omniplex didnt have it
Cross of Iron - James Cobern, James Mason peckenpah directed, Germans on the Eastern front
Gaslight - B/W husdand (french actor) tries to drive wife (ingrid Bergman ?insane by messing with the gas supply/lights
Brighton rock - B/W Richard Attenborough plays Pinky small town mobster
Ace in the hole - Kirk Douglas plays a former big time reporter manipulating a cave rescue
Really? Decent but I thought it went on forever. Also, Salieri was a far more likeable character then Mozart. Great acting by F.Murray Abraham though.Quote:
Originally Posted by gustavo
Not a bad film for the music on it's own but, as even Lisa Simpson was able to point out, it's full of historical inaccuracies. I'd go further and say it's deliberately misleading.Quote:
Originally Posted by gustavo
I watched Hannibal Rising last night and thought it was quite good.:)
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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie
Fair enough , I suppose that might be a turn off to some but I dont mind a little dramatic licence
Well i think the opposite really , I thought it painted Mozart to be a genius who was an annoying so and so but at the bottom of it was a decent guy and that Salieri was made out to be a bitter guy who was jealous of Mozarts ability and his flippant attitude to itQuote:
Originally Posted by osarusan